"Lovely Rita, Meter Maid", my ass
OK - on the bright side, New Orleans should be spared too much more of the-rain-they-shorely-don't-need. On the other hand, Rita looks like she's coming straight up the poop-shute of my adopted hometown.
On the bright side in a parallel universe, the original thinking was that Houston would be on the "dirty side" of the hurricane, subject perhaps to a few tornadoes, but is no longer projected to be so situated. On the fourth hand, it looks like we'll be spared that indignity because the eye of this projected category 5 'cane is slated to go right over through Houston. Day-yam.
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So, is it worse if the eye
So, is it worse if the eye goes right over you, or better? I'm confused. Because I know that although the maximum winds exist in the storm's eyewall, I also know that the windward side of the storm gets the worst of the weather in general.
Sir, would you like a stick in the eye or a boot in your ass? Your choice.
Patton,
Patton,
Do you have an evacuation plan? A sit-tight-and-tough-it-out plan? A plan to loot the gun shop first thing? A defense plan to ward off looters or mutants or vampires or CHUDS or Morlocks, like Charlton Heston in The Omega Man?
Patton, I've got friends in
Patton, I've got friends in New Orleans you could stay with...
J: Who knows? I'm so tired
J: Who knows? I'm so tired of listening to the weather folk that I've lost track of what's good or bad about the possibilities.
G: Yup. If necessary, we'll head to an interior room and hope that the damage isn't too bad, while also wishing we were still in civilized Ohio, where homes have basements. A defense plan? Yup - my 30-30 is loaded, and in the incredibly unlikely event the rabble has both the opportunity and the motive to loot my part of town, it's target practice time. We're not leaving town, because, well, who wants to spend 24-36 hours driving from Houston to Dallas, only to find that there's no place to stay and we'd STILL not be out of reach of the storm? Screw it - what's gonna happen's gonna happen.
B: All your New Orleans friends were already in Houston, and are now located in Arkansas and other places that are only debatably better than the flood-ravaged pseudo-toilet from whence they came. But thanks - I'd sooner ride it out than go to Arkansas. I like my teeth and refuse to knock them out just to fit in.
Actually, they are in Houma,
Actually, they are in Houma, a bit west of New Orleans. They bugged out for the storm, but had power back by the thursday after. Most of them are from Ohio, originally.
Houma? Tiny little town, if
Houma? Tiny little town, if I recall, and I'm probably right, since Google Earth displays it all fuzzy-like.
They bugged out, but have now un-bugged, then?
They bugged to Houston ahead
They bugged to Houston ahead of Katrina - Saturday night. They returned Wednesday, found that damage to their house amounted to three shingles gone from the roof, and had power back Thursday. I don't think they're leaving for this one.